Scrooge Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Pulled this next batch for weekend reading. Artistic line-up is: Phil DeLara on Beep Beep, an artist I don't know so I am looking forward reading it Dan Spiegle on The Rifleman. His work on John Paul Jones was better than on Maverick Alex Toth, 32-page worth, on The Lennon Sisters No artist ID on Smokey at the GCD Nat Edson as per Becattini in the GCD for The Wagon Train Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I thought you all might appreciate taking a look at my early Disney film Four Color collection, the first batch in this post are books I picked up in the early seventies; probably when I was in 7th - 8th grade. The Reluctant Dragon was a Flea Market find and probably cost all of a quarter. The Bambi, Bambi's Children and Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs were ordered from the Buyer's Guide, probably for $3-4 each. You can see in these early days condition was not so much of an issue and you never really knew what was going to come in the mail. Some might say that still hasn't changed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 The next group comes from when I started going to conventions and suddenly you could not only see what you were buying but I started to become more condition sensitive. Three Caballeros was a tough book and I still remember the day I bought it at Seuling's Philly convention. The Brer Rabbit was also a convention pickup but I don't remember the details. I probably dropped $20. each on both. One more post after this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Nice, I love all the Bambi covers. :applause: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Finally, in the early nineties I picked up this issue of Pinocchio. I would have sworn I already had this book but can't seem to find another copy in my files so maybe I did not. Anyway, this is fun as I picked it up from Pat Block who drew some of the duck stories over the last two decades and he included the attached drawing. I don't remember what I paid but I bet it was $40-60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 (edited) I had posted this earlier in the thread but for the sake of completion a very recent (last year) acquistion which alllowed me to almost complete this run of early Disney film books. Still need to get Dumbo and I am working on the Duck books (only need the really pricey ones at this point!) Edited April 19, 2009 by 40YrsCollctngCmcs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Pulled this next batch for weekend reading. Artistic line-up is: Phil DeLara on Beep Beep, an artist I don't know so I am looking forward reading it Dan Spiegle on The Rifleman. His work on John Paul Jones was better than on Maverick Alex Toth, 32-page worth, on The Lennon Sisters No artist ID on Smokey at the GCD Nat Edson as per Becattini in the GCD for The Wagon Train Too bad I have no ID on the Smokey art b/c it was one heck of a more entertaining book that I thought it would be. Heaping more Westerns coming my way this weekend: No artist ID on Jace Pearson Alberto Giolitti on Wells Fargo Mel Keefer on The Texan Warren Tufts on Rawhide and Tom Gill on Fury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Alberto Giolitti on Wells Fargo Giolitti rarely disappoints and he again did not this time around. Here are 3 page spreads from the second story in this issue of Wells Fargo - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 I'm not a western fan but that sure is some nice artwork! Has anyone ever done a table or chart showing the distribution of genre over time for the four color series. Additionally, the number of issues put out seemed to gain speed as the years wore on. Did it slowly ebb in the early sixties prior to the Gold Key switch or was it peaking? When Gold Key took over they didn't have a one shot series anymore, although they issued lots of one shots. It doesn't seem like the quantity was as high though. Curious if anyone has ever seen numbers on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I'm not a western fan but that sure is some nice artwork! Glad to hear I am not the only one to think so. Has anyone ever done a table or chart showing the distribution of genre over time for the four color series. I've never seen one but then again I've never looked for one. This is the last thing I would want to hear ... knowing my compulsiveness, it's going to eat at me to get one done Here are a couple more of my faves from a recent trade - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageComics Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I thought you all might appreciate taking a look at my early Disney film Four Color collection, the first batch in this post are books I picked up in the early seventies; probably when I was in 7th - 8th grade. The Reluctant Dragon was a Flea Market find and probably cost all of a quarter. The Bambi, Bambi's Children and Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs were ordered from the Buyer's Guide, probably for $3-4 each. You can see in these early days condition was not so much of an issue and you never really knew what was going to come in the mail. Some might say that still hasn't changed! Those Bambi books are absolutely gorgeous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 And because I have a weakness for Westerns, more books from the trade. Am currently watching the first Season of Maverick as I scan these - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selegue Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I'm not a western fan but that sure is some nice artwork! Glad to hear I am not the only one to think so. Has anyone ever done a table or chart showing the distribution of genre over time for the four color series. I've never seen one but then again I've never looked for one. This is the last thing I would want to hear ... knowing my compulsiveness, it's going to eat at me to get one done We'll expect a spreadsheet by next Saturday. Here are a couple more of my faves from a recent trade - That's a beauty! GCD says Don Gunn, not someone I know much about. Did he work with Walt Kelly? If not, maybe he was told to "draw them like Kelly." Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 GCD says Don Gunn, not someone I know much about. Did he work with Walt Kelly? If not, maybe he was told to "draw them like Kelly." Jack, he is one of those "mystery" MJ&S artists whose list you posted recently. As per the Who's Who (which for once is very specific), Gunn worked on: SNIFFLES AND MARY JANE (pen/ink/) 1945-49 in LOONEY TUNES #49-50,53/60/84-87/93/95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 And because I have a weakness for Westerns, more books from the trade. Am currently watching the first Season of Maverick as I scan these - I've always liked the early Gene Autry books. Interestingly enough, the only book the owner of the More Fun Collection kept of the 2400 books he sold to us was Gene Autry #1. At the show yesterday in New Orleans I was asked if I had western comics for sale at least four times. We had used to stock them (back when I was selling books more often), I rarely got asked. So it looks like interest is back up on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I'm not a western fan but that sure is some nice artwork! Glad to hear I am not the only one to think so. Has anyone ever done a table or chart showing the distribution of genre over time for the four color series. I've never seen one but then again I've never looked for one. This is the last thing I would want to hear ... knowing my compulsiveness, it's going to eat at me to get one done Here are a couple more of my faves from a recent trade - One of the things I love about the Dell line of the forties and fifties was the tremendous variety. It is also interesting to note the shift from the early forties in comic strip reprints to adaptations of movies and television by the late fifties. Those movie comics were the equivalent of VCR tapes and DVD's today for kids back then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I thought you all might appreciate taking a look at my early Disney film Four Color collection, the first batch in this post are books I picked up in the early seventies; probably when I was in 7th - 8th grade. The Reluctant Dragon was a Flea Market find and probably cost all of a quarter. The Bambi, Bambi's Children and Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs were ordered from the Buyer's Guide, probably for $3-4 each. You can see in these early days condition was not so much of an issue and you never really knew what was going to come in the mail. Some might say that still hasn't changed! Those Bambi books are absolutely gorgeous! Thanks, I should go ahead and look at them again, I haven't read them in a long time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantastic Thor Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 I got this one slabbed years ago ... One of my Favs T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dell4c Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 here's the earliest One I have http://www.cbarchive.com/Dell/4cv1_incomplete/003/PageImages/Page001.jpg There's thumbnails there now for every series II four colour except 6,7,38, 63 and 94 Sorry it only works with Internet Exporer Enjoy Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dell4c Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Sorry Don't know why that link won't work - here's one that should hhttp://www.cbarchive.com/Dell/4cv1_incomplete/Main. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
